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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Astronomy Daily.

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Speaker 2: I'm Anna and I'm Avery. It is Friday, March twenty seventh,

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twenty twenty six, and our producer has given us an

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absolutely stacked show. Today.

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Speaker 1: We are literally five days from a crew of four

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astronauts launching around the Moon for the first time in

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over fifty years, and today those four people touched down

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in Florida.

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Speaker 2: We've also got the most detailed look at Saturn ever,

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captured lightning on Jupiter that makes Earth storms look like

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a birthday sparkler, and a fifty year stellar mystery finally

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cracked open by a Japanese space telescope.

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Speaker 1: Plus, we're narrowing down the shortlist of exoplanets most likely

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to harbor alien life. And we have a juicy update

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on that dramatic rocket scrub from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Boiler, it was a boat.

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Speaker 1: It was absolutely a boat. Let's get into it. Let's

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go then, all right, story one and Avery, this one

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is really happening today as we record the art Miss

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two crew is flying into Kennedy's Space Center.

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Speaker 2: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina coach

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All from NASA and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen,

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four people, one rocket, and they are now officially on site.

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Speaker 1: NASA Administrator Jarrett Isaacman and Canadian Space Agency President Lisa

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Campbell were there to greet them on the tarmac this afternoon.

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The crew also answered questions from the media.

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Speaker 2: Now, just to set the scene, the SLS rocket and

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the Orion capsule are already sitting on launch Pad thirty

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nine B at Kennedy Space Center. They rolled out on

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March twentieth. Everything is in place. The target launch window

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opens Wednesday, April first, at six twenty four pm Eastern Time.

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Speaker 1: And April first is not a joke. This is genuinely happening,

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a two hour window on the first, and if they

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need it, opportunities continue through April sixth.

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Speaker 2: The crew has been in quarantine since March eighteenth, keeping

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their head health locked down. Before this ten day mission.

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They spent the quarantine reviewing procedures at Johnson Space Center

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in Houston, Texas, and now the rest of the countdown

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happens here in Florida.

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Speaker 1: This mission is going to take them farther than Earth

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than any human has been since Apollo thirteen in nineteen seventy,

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about five thousand miles beyond the Moon. It won't land,

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but it will swing around the back of the Moon

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on a free return trajectory and come screaming back to

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Earth at around twenty five thousand miles per hour.

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Speaker 2: Victor Glover will become the first person of color, Christina

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Coach the first woman, and Jeremy Hanson the first non

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American to travel beyond Low Earth orbit. And for Canadians listening,

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Jeremy Hanson arrives in Florida today for what is going

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to be the ride of his life.

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Speaker 1: We are going to be covering this story right through launch.

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Stick with US Astronomy Daily is your front row seat

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to the most exciting human spacelight moment in a generation.

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Speaker 2: Dory two, and this one is visually stunning. NASA has

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released a new set of Saturn images and they are

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genuinely the most comprehensive view of Saturn ever created.

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Speaker 1: This is a collaboration between two of humanity's greatest telescopes,

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the James Web Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. Now,

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these two observatories were launched thirty one years apart. Hubble

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went up in nineteen ninety web in late twenty twenty one.

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But when you combine their observations you get something extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Hubble observes Saturn invisible light in August twenty twenty four,

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capturing all those familiar golden cloud bands and the iconic rings.

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You get the colors, the subtle atmospheric variations, the sheer

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beauty of the thing.

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Speaker 1: Then Webb looked at it in infrared in November twenty

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twenty four, just fourteen weeks later, and the picture completely transforms.

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The rings glow brilliantly because they're made of highly reflective

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water ice. You can see deep atmospheric storms, jet streams,

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and a mysterious gray green glow at the poles that

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scientists think may be linked to auroral activity or hide

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Speaker 2: One of the most poignant details in this release, Saturn's

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famous hexagonal jet stream at the north pole is just

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barely visible in these images, and sciences say this could

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be among the last clear views of it for decades,

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because the pole is heading into a long winter darkness

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that won't lift until the twenty forties.

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Speaker 1: NASA describes what the two telescopes together can do as

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slicing through Saturn's atmosphere at multiple altitudes. Like peeling back

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the layers of an onion, Hubble covers the upper clouds

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web dives deeper into the chemistry. Together, they give researchers

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a three dimensional picture of how this whole system works.

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Speaker 2: And Webb's wide angle view captured six of Saturn's moons

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in the same frame, including Titan, which is massive and hazy,

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and Enceladus, that little world with a subservice ocean that

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astrobiologists find so tantalizing.

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Speaker 1: We will link to these images in the show notes.

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They are genuinely worth five minutes of your time just

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to look at them. Saturn is out there looking absolutely magnificent.

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Speaker 2: Story three and I want everyone to picture the most

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dramatic lightning storm you have ever seen on Earth, A

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real cracker thunder rattling the windows. Now imagine that but

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a million times more powerful.

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Speaker 1: That is potentially what is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, according

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to new research from the University of California, Berkeley published

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this week in the journal AGU Advances.

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Speaker 2: The study used data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has

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been orbiting Jupiter since twenty sixteen. Specifically, it's microwave radiometer.

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That instrument was designed for studying the planet's atmosphere, but

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it turns out it's also brilliant at detecting the radio

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signatures of lightning.

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Speaker 1: The clever bit was that the team focused on a

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period in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two when

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a normally storm filled belt on Jupiter went unusually quiet.

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That meant JUNO could pinpoint individual isolated storm systems, what

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the researchers call stealth superstorms, and directly measure the power

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of lightning within them.

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Speaker 2: The results are remarkable. From six hundred and thirteen detected

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lightning pulses, the power rains from roughly comparable to an

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Earth lightning bolt all the way up to one hundred

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times more powerful. But because of uncertainties and how radio

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frequencies compare across the two planets, some of those bolts

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could be up to a million times stronger than anything

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Speaker 1: And these storms were generating around three lightning flashes per second.

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On one flyover, JUNO detected two hundred and six separate

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microwave pulses in a single pass.

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Speaker 2: Lead researcher Michael Wong described it really well On Earth,

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moist air rises because water makes it more buoyant in

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a nitrogen atmosphere. On Jupiter, the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen,

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so moist air is actually heavier and sinks. It takes

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enormous energy to push it upward, and when those storms

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finally break loose, they release all of that stored energy

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in extraordinary ways.

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Speaker 1: What I love about this is that the Juno mission

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has been delivering incredible science for a decade now, and

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even as the spacecraft ages, it's still finding ways to

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rewrite our understanding of the Solar System's biggest planet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, onto our next story today.

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Speaker 1: Story four, and this is one of those stories where

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astronomers get to say we finally did it after fifty years.

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Speaker 2: The star in question is Gamma Cassiopeia. If you look

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up at the distinctive W shape of the constellation Cassiopeia

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on a clear night, the middle star of that W

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that's it visible to the naked eye about five hundred

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and fifty light years away, and since nineteen seventy six

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it has been blasting out X rays around forty times

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more powerful than you'd ever expect from a star like that.

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Speaker 1: The plasma generating those X rays was hotter than one

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hundred million degrees, and for decades nobody could agree. Why

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was it magnetic activity on the star itself? Was there

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a hidden companion pulling in material? The debate has raged

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it across multiple research groups for half a century.

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Speaker 2: Now, thanks to Japan's XRIISM space telescope that stands for

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X Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, developed by JAXA in

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collaboration with NASA and ESA, the answer is finally in

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the culprit is a hidden white dwarf companion.

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Speaker 1: The key instrument is called Resolve, a high precision microclorimeter

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on XRIISM that can measure X ray spectra with extraordinary accuracy.

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The team observed Gamma Capia three times in December twenty

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twenty four, February twenty twenty five, and June twenty twenty five,

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covering the full two hundred and three day orbit of

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the binary system.

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Speaker 2: What they found was that the superheated plasma generating the

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X rays was moving in sync with the hidden companion,

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not with the bright b star. Everyone could see. That's

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the clincher, first direct proof that it's the white dwarf

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not the star. Itself driving all that high energy activity.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out this white dwarf is magnetic. Its

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field is funneling material from the star's surrounding disc toward

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its pulls, where it releases all that energy as X

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rays like a tiny but ferocious cosmic vacuum cleaner.

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Speaker 2: The implications go well beyond this one star. Astronomers have

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long predicted that about fifty to seventy percent of B

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type binary stars might have white dwarf companions, but solid

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evidence has been hard to pin down. This result confirms

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a whole new clas of binary systems that had previously

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only existed in theory.

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Speaker 1: Lead researcher Yayel Naz at the University of Liege put

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it beautifully. There has been an intense effort to solve

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the mystery of gamma cassiopeia across many research groups for

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many decades, and now, thanks to XRIIM, we have finally

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done it. A very good Friday for Stellar Astrophysics.

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Speaker 2: Story five, and this one comes with a movie tie

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in which I am absolutely here for.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Project Hail Mary yet, the Ryan

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Gosling film based on Andy Weir's novel. It's currently in cinemas,

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and it is excellent. The premise is that humanity discovers

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a tiny micro organism called astrophage is consuming the Sun's energy,

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and one scientist is sent on a desperate solo mission

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to find the answer at a distant star.

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Speaker 2: And this week, real astronomers at Cornell University's Carl Sagan

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question the movie poses. If we were building a real

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Hail Mary spacecraft, where would we send it?

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Speaker 1: Lead researcher Professor Lisa Koltngeger, alongside a team of undergraduate students,

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comb through data from the European Space Agency's Gaya mission

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and the NASA Exoplanet Archive. There are over six thousand

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known exoplanets. From that enormous list, they've narrowed it down

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to forty five rocky worlds sitting in their star's habitable

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zones where liquid water could potentially exist on the surface.

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Speaker 2: The list includes some names that will be familiar to

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our regular listeners. Trappist one DEFNG about forty light years away,

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Proxima Centauri b our nearest stellar neighbor at just four

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point twenty five light years LHS one one four zero B,

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a dense super earth about forty eight light years out,

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and quite a few lesser known candidates that could prove

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Speaker 1: What's powerful about this paper is that it's not just

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a list, it's a strategic roadmap. It tells you which

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worlds are best suited for transmission spectroscopy with JWST, which

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worlds are targets for future direct imaging missions, and which

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have the tightest constraints on habitability.

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Speaker 2: There's also a more conservative list of just twenty four

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world within a tighter three dimensional habitable zone, and if

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you account for the uncertainties in stellar measurements, the forty

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five could expand to as many as seventy three.

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Speaker 1: Haltenngeger summed it up perfectly. Our paper reveals where you

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should travel to to find life if we ever build

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a hail Mary spacecraft. The search for alien life just

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got a short list. I find that genuinely thrilling.

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Speaker 2: Finally, today, the boat story we tease at the beginning

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of the show.

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Speaker 1: Story six, and yesterday we told you about that extraordinary

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scrub at t minus three seconds for Esar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket,

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the most dramatic last second halt you could imagine right

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on the edge of potentially making European space history.

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Speaker 2: And we didn't know why the countdown got all the

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way to three seconds before engine ignition. Then nothing. Controllers

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called the scrub. We knew there was a hold in

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the countdown, but the exact cause wasn't confirmed when we

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recorded yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Well, now we know it was a boat.

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Speaker 2: An unauthorized vessel entered the danger zone around and Doya

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Spaceport in northern Norway during the countdown. The range had

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already been delayed when the boat first appeared, and by

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the time the boat cleared and the range was reopened,

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the propellant temperatures on board the rocket had shifted, the

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window was gone.

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t minus three seconds the engines were moments from igniting.

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ESAR Aerospace would have potentially become the first company ever

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to launch a rocket to orbit from European soil and

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a boat said no.

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Speaker 2: No new launch date has been announced as of now.

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and they'll need to assess the propellant situation and any

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technical reviews before they can reset for another attempt.

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Speaker 1: Now we should note this kind of range safety protocol

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exists for a reason. Keeping people out of danger zones

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during rocket launches is genuinely critical. No one is blaming

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range control here, but the timing could not have been

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more painful.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep tracking this one. Esar's Spectrum rocket is a

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genuinely significant vehicle twenty eight meters tall, capable of carrying

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up to a ton of payload to low Earth orbit,

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designed and built almost entirely in house near Munich. When

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it does reach orbit, it will be a historic moment

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for European space capability.

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Speaker 1: The mission is called onward and Upward, and that is

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exactly what ESAR will have to be. We're rooting for them.

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Speaker 2: And that is your Astronomy Daily for Friday, March twenty seventh.

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What a week it has been, and honestly, with Artemis

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two five days from launch, next week is going to

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be even bigger.

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Speaker 1: We will be covering every step of the countdown right

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through to lift off and beyond. Make sure you're subscribed

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so you don't miss a single episode.

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Speaker 1: And if today's episode sparked something for you, a question, thought,

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a theory about whether that rogue boat was actually a

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disgruntled rocket enthusiast, drop us a message we love hearing

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from you.

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Speaker 2: From all of us here at Astronomy Daily, keep looking up.

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The universe is not done surprising us.

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow

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Speaker 2: Sunday Star Star